When Billy Cobham was scouting locations to record his new album, Crosswinds: Time Lapse Photos, it didn’t take him long to decide that Sweetwater Studios, in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, was going to be one of them. “It’s like a cathedral, an institution, with all that you could ever want,” the drummer says. “All you needed was an engineer that knew what it was all about.”
With Mark Hornsby, Cobham got more than he’d hoped for: a seasoned technician with an appreciation for Cobham’s place in music history. “Billy is known as a jazz cat, but he’s far deeper than that,” Hornsby says. “He’s a very diverse musician and person. We hit it off from a personality point of view first and foremost, and that set the stage for—as it always does—working in the studio together. When Billy first toured the studio, he said, ‘This is a really cool vibe you’ve got going here. Let’s talk some more.’”
